Genre
Martial Arts & Kung Fu
Films built around hand-to-hand combat as choreography, where fight scenes carry the story the way songs carry a musical.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.

Enter the Dragon
Robert Clouse · 1973

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee · 2000

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Lau Kar-leung · 1978

The Raid 2
Gareth Evans · 2014
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